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cephalaea

cephalaea

See also: cephalæa

Latin

Noun

cephalaea f ‎(genitive cephalaeae); first declension

(medicine) a continued pain in the head, a lasting headache
vocative singular of cephalaea

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	cephalaea	cephalaeae
genitive	cephalaeae	cephalaeārum
dative	cephalaeae	cephalaeīs
accusative	cephalaeam	cephalaeās
ablative	cephalaeā	cephalaeīs
vocative	cephalaea	cephalaeae

Descendants

French: céphalée
Italian: cefalea

Portuguese: cefaleia
Spanish: cefalea

References

cephalaea in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Félix Gaffiot (1934), “cephalaea”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.